Halifax
Love

One the my favourite things about being a jewellery designer is being able to create truly magic moments between people. Here is a snapshot for you, taken when this couple picked up their rings. May you, my reader, enjoy the magic…
Atlantic Craft Tradeshow 2014

“Tradeshows” are where gallery owners place orders for their stores. This is what was happening in Philadelphia, where I have just returned from, and this is what will take place again this weekend in Halifax, at the Atlantic Craft Tradeshow…
NSDCC Designer Craft Show at Cunard Centre

My favourite event of the year is coming up: the Designer Craft Show put on by the Nova Scotia Designer Craft Council. You are warmly invited to come down to the Cunard Centre this weekend and enjoy all the wonderful…
Special showcase during Nocturne – Art at Night

I am delighted to announce that, beginning today, there will be a special exhibit at Fireworks Gallery in Halifax, as part of Nocturne – Art at Night. Nocturne is an amazing annual event, bringing art to everyone, for free, every year.…
Coming to Canada, 24 years ago!

This rainy Canada Day is a fitting time to write about the anniversary of my arrival in Canada, twenty-four years ago! I was just fresh out of high school in my small hometown at the footfills of the Bavarian alps…
Atlantic Craft Trade Show

Today I will set up my booth at the Atlantic Craft Trade Show here in Halifax. I participate in this wholesale industry event every year, and particularly enjoy seeing all my wonderful colleagues in the high-level crafting community. This will…
Koshogatsu – A Little Japanese New Year’s Celebration

There seem to appear more and more New Year’s celebrations in my continously enriching cultural life: the Western Calendar New Year’s of January 1st, just past. Then there has been Losar, the Tibetan New Year, which is always a bit…
Winter Solstice • Children’s Day

Cheerful winter solstice to everyone! Because we celebrate the Solstice rather than Christmas, things are very quiet and still in our home now, while most people still run errands like mad. Every year, I am glad for this mirror: watching…
Ta-dah! New Work, Holiday Sale

Ta-dah … is that how you spell a fanfare sound? I am introducing my new work: the TwoByFour rings! Each ring in this series starts as a length of metal that is 2 inches in length, and 4 millimeters in diameter. This is…
Sunshine, and Showers of Praises

Positive feedback …. I had forgotten how important that is. The NSDCC Summer Craft Show this past weekend was a real feast of it for me! First, a lady stopped by the booth, really eager to meet me, because of…
What a great guy

Raymond’s death still reverberates in the city and among friends. Yesterday, there was a very sweet letter from Ray’s family published on the front page of the local daily paper. It illustrates very well what a great guy he was, and…